Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a thrill for me back in the day, watching cartoon characters from different companies crossing over with each other. The only thing missing was a superhero appearance. Sure it was too soon for Batman The Animated Series, but surely Max Fleischer's Superman could have done a fly by?
@Ross: only if it was of Paramount importance.
ReplyDeleteBa-DUM-boom!
@Ross: I can just picture this scenario being part of a trap laid by Judge Doom...as revived by Ra's Al Ghul. You know; by mixing an old paint stain with the Lazarus Pit!
ReplyDelete@Anon701: GROAN!!!
P.S.---Happy Canada Day to our neighbor to the north! An internally self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth for over 150 years...and may she stay that way forever.
DeleteMaybe Roger Rabbit sharing a cover with only Captain Carrot.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought this was going to be one of Bats's comics iterations, for an absurd contrast; but for the 90s animated version, Roger would fit right in on one of the show's lighter episodes.
ReplyDeleteEspecially with regard to the Mad Hatter and Alison Wonderland!
DeleteP.S.---how about Godzilla vs. the Golden Age Green Giant (Pelican Publications, 1940)?
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that a Superman appearance in Roger Rabbit was proposed at one point, but didn't happen for whatever reason.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading the same thing. A contract negotiations breakdown, maybe?
Delete@Ben W: either that or Lois Lane got a sneak peek at Jessica Rabbit...and hit Superman upside the head with a kryptonite blackjack.
ReplyDelete@Carycomic , thanks for the well wishes from the Great White North on our 158th birthday !!!
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I think I just had a Mandela Effect moment, because I could have sworn Superman appeared in black and white at the end when all the toons see that Doom is dead and start singing "Smile Darn Ya Smile." Although now that I think about it, why would he be in black and white? (Maybe there's some generic superhero in there that I'm thinking of...?)
ReplyDeletesorry, Carycomic, but there's ALWAYS a Joker in the deck. If NOONE shot J.R., she was on track to ride a gravy train she was going to surprise Roger with!!
ReplyDeleteUhm! Earth to Tobor: I was referring to the absence of the Paramount/Fleischer Superman from the actual movie?
Delete..maybe buy a small carnival as a surprise??
ReplyDeleteI like the carnival idea, though. It could work for uniting Calvin and Hobbs with Sugar and Spike from DC!
DeleteI wonder which live-action Batman would appear in a sequel to WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? I'm partial to Christian Bale. After all; he made his film debut (as "Cowboy") in Disney's NEWSIES!
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering why Roger Rabbit is facing in the opposite direction from where his wife is bound to the rails with inescapable toon rope!
ReplyDeleteWell, that; and why everyone else has evidently failed to notice it.
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